I spent hours and hours walking through Wonderland this week and honestly. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Who would have guessed? I have to be honest. It is a most enchanting experience and everyone should try it at least a dozen times. Possibly more.
It's Wednesday! We are walking! As always, I want to thank @Tattoodjay for hosting the #WednesdayWalk challenge! It is a challenge that allows you to share what you see as you walk through your day. Show me where you walked today, I want to see what you got to see and hear what you have to say. If you want to do the challenge, drop him a link on his #WednesdayWalk post, so he can try to visit yours! Whatever your day looks like, it is worth a walk-through. You can't always have sunshine and rainbows, but, you can always have a #WednesdayWalk!
It is raining out today, so I took my walk inside! This was almost more satisfying. I got to enjoy myself thouroughly and walk for the challenge. Win-win. That hardly ever works, but, when it does, I celebrate it. It is the perfect day to go to the Christmas shop, it is raining (I know, I mentioned it) and there are few people here today. Who really wants to go out in the rain, unless you are a crazy person? Walking in the rain is best done with the One You Love. Not happening today, but, we will work with what we have.
The entire store is warehouse sized and there are three buildings. I just found out there will be another building in the spring. Score! That is when they migrate over to flowers. Oh! Did I mention this is a nursery plus? The plus is what most nurseries/flowershops have migrated to in the last ten years. They have flowers, vegetable plants, trees, bushes, and everything that one could possibly want to enhance the beauty of your house. Hey! Keep walking, I'll keep talking. We will kill two birds with one stone. I have already taken in close to two miles already.
On a different day, I went and looked at their trees that they cut at their farm. Honestly, they were so overpriced I couldn't make myself look at them. Okay, I looked at them, but the harsh reality made me look away! I don't mind paying for what I get, but, there is a line in the sand that I draw and that keeps me in a reasonable budget. Trees shouldn't cost a kings randsom. For example: I looked at one tree that was nine feet. Guess how much it was? First person to get it right will win 2 HBD.
We are back inside and checking out the different rooms. They have divided up this large area into seperate rooms, almost like a furniture store does. Each place is decorated in a different theme and you can go up to each tree and take the ornaments off the tree and purchase them. The employees go back and fill in the trees with new ornaments. This keeps it fresh looking. It never looks the same. One of the reasons I take pictures of them. The other reason is I just like Christmas! There are just so many different words I can use to describe Christmas, but, nobody has established a word to describe someone who is obsessed with it. Not that I am obsessed. I just love the feelgoodness about it.
Inhale the magic of it all. Don't miss the owl, coming in for a landing. How can you not love a walk like this? It almost made it worth the rain, yes? No worries, my friends, I will bring an extention of the spirit of Christmas back. Tomorrow or sooner. :) And in keeping with the beauty... Flowers. Always. To color my world. #alwaysaflower.
You can't always have a perfect day, but, you can always have a #WednesdayWalk. I want to thank 
All I have are my words, armed in my mind, written in pen, stand by stand. Oh, yes. Still by hand. It has a different feel. Altered not by keys, backspace, and delete, I write, erase, tear it to pieces and start all over again. And again.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost